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HOBART   COLLEGE    BULLETINS 


Vol.  IV 


OCTOBER,  1905 


No.  1 


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Published  by  Hobart  College,  Geneva,  N.  Y.     Issued  quarterly. 

Entered   October  28,  1902,  at  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  as  second-class 

matter,  under  Act  of  Congress  of  July  16,  1894. 


APPEAL 

FOR  COPIES  OF  THE  CATALOGUE,  THE  "  ECHO  "  AND 

THE  " HERALD" 

In  order  properly  to  fill  out  its  riles,  the  College  is  in  need 
of  the  following  issues  of  Hobart  publications  : 

Catalogue: — 1837-38,  1838-39,  1839-40,  1840-41, 
1843-44,  1844-45,  1848-49,  1850-51,  1851-52,  1860-61, 
1864-65,  1868-69, 1880-81,  1886-87,   1891-92. 

Proceedings  of  the  Associate  Alumni  :  1865  and  1866. 

Echo  : — Vols.  I--XI  inclusive  ;  Vols.  XXI  (Class  of  1882), 
XXII  (Class  of  1883),  XXXIII  (Class  of  1895),  XXXV 
(Class  of  1897),  XL  (Class  of  1902,)  XLI  (Class  of  1903). 

Herald  : — Vols.  I-XI  inclusive,  any  numbers  ;  Vol.  VII 
O885-86),  Nos.  3,  4,  5,  7  ;  Vol.  VIII  (1886-87),  Nos.  1, 
2,  3,  4,  5,  7  ;  Vol.  IX  (1887-88),  Nos.  1,  2,  3,4,  5  ;  Vol. 
X  (1888-89).  Nos.  3,  5,  7,  8,  9;  Vol.  XI  (1889-90),  Nos. 
4,  5,  7,  8,  9,  10;  Vol.  XII  (1890-91),  Nos.  1,  4;  Vol. 
XVI  (1894-95),  Nos.  1,  6,  9,  10;  Vol.  XVII  (1895-96), 
No.  1:  Vol.  XVII]  (1896-97),  No.  8  ;  Vol.  XXII  (1900-01), 
No.  3.  The  deficiencies  in  Vols.  XVI  and  XX11  are  espe- 
cially important. 

It  is  earnestly  desired  that  anyone  who  is  in  a  position  to 
do  so  will  send  the  above  mentioned  issues  (any  numbers, 
however  scattering,  will  be  useful),  to  the  Librarian  of  the 
College,   Dr.  Charles  D.  Vail. 


ADDRESS  TO  THE  ALUMNI 

To  the  Alumni  of  Hobart  College  : 

Gentlemen  : 

With  the  opening  of  the  new  College  year  and  the  publi- 
cation of  the  autumn  bulletin,  the  President  wishes  to  bring 
certain  encouraging  facts  to  the  attention  of  the  Alumni. 

To  begin  with,  it  is  gratifying  to  announce  that  fifty-five 
new  men  entered  Hobart  in  September.  Of  these  forty-four 
were  Freshmen,  four  were  Sophomores,  five  were  Juniors, 
and  two  were  Seniors.  These,  with  the  fifty-two  students 
who  returned  to  Geneva  after  the  summer  vacation,  consti- 
tuted a  total  enrollment  of  one  hundred  and  seven.  This  is 
the  largest  enrollment  in  the  history  of  the  College.  Worth 
noticing  also  in  this  connection  is  the  fact  that  the  number  of 
non-scholarship  students  has  been  so  much  augmented,  that 
the  receipts  from  tuition  and  contingents  for  the  present  year 
will  aggregate  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars.  No  such 
amount  has  previously  been  realized  from  the  fees  of  under- 
graduates. Through  this  item  alone,  our  income  for  1905-06 
has  been  increased  at  least  fifteen  hundred  dollars.  This 
fact,  together  with,  the  statement  in  the  Treasurer's  report  of 
last  June  that  the  deficit  had  been  decreased  from  seven 
thousand  dollars  in  1904  to  about  one  thousand  in  1905, 
should  give  the  Alumni  the  substantial  assurance  of  a  greatly 
improved  financial  condition. 

Such  results  have  not,  of  course,  been  brought  about  with- 
out adequate  causes  :  and  the  most  potent  cause,  in  the 
opinion  of  the  President,  is  the  fine  spirit  of  increasing  loy- 
alty to  the  College  which  is  being  everywhere  displayed  both 
by  undergraduates  and  Alumni.     At  the  Alumni  smoker  of 


4  Hobart   College 

the  last  Commencement  more  than  one  speaker  from  the 
graduating  class  gave  earnest  and  emphatic  expression  to  the 
strong  good  feeling  which  united  the  members  of  the  student 
body,  while  all  throughout  the  year  the  generous  responses  of 
the  Alumni  to  the  appeals  of  the  Treasurer  have  brought  us 
proofs  of  the  lively  interest  which  the  sons  of  Hobart  are 
taking  in  her  affairs.  This  interest  was  also  in  evidence  at 
the  Commencement  dinner  where  the  attendance  was  larger 
than  on  any  previous  occasion  and  where  the  confidence  in 
Hobart 's  future  and  the  enthusiasm  for  her  welfare  exceeded 
anything  which  the  President  has  as  yet  observed.  The 
Alumni  are,  in  truth,  closing  up  their  ranks  and  rallying  as 
never  before  to  the  support  of  their  Alma  Mater.  In  Geneva, 
Buffalo  and  Rochester  they  have  formed  themselves  into  local 
associations  and  there  are  already  signs  that  at  one  or  two 
other  points  the  movement  toward  organization  is  on  foot. 
All  this,  together  with  the  fact  that  wherever  the  President 
has  been  he  has  received  a  hearty  and  helpful  welcome,  leads 
him  to  believe  that  a  new  era  of  aggressive  work  is  at  hand. 
The  grounds  for  this  belief  seem  to  be  sure  and  sound.  An 
improved  financial  condition,  the  largest  enrollment  in  the 
history  of  the  College,  a  united  and  enthusiastic  student 
body,  and,  among  the  Alumni,  a  widely  diffused  and  deeply 
rooted  affection  for  Alma  Mater — such  are  the  grounds  on 
which  the  hope  of  the  President  securely  rests.  It  is  there- 
fore with  unfeigned  thankfulness  that  he  gives  these  data  to 
Hobart  men  wherever  they  may  be  found.  Travelling  as  he 
does  from  place  to  place  and  being  also  in  residence  at 
Geneva,  the  President  is  in  a  position  to  judge  of  general 
conditions  and  also  to  bring  into  a  focus  the  separate  rays  of 
bright  and  warm  devotion  which  are  scattered  about  all  over 
the  land.  from  his  central  position,  therefore,  he  is  glad 
to  report  progress  and  to  point  out  some  of  the  more  impor- 
tant factors  of  which  this  progress  is  composed. 


Address  to  thk  Alumni  5 

Hopeful  as  the  outlook  is,  however,  and  reliable  as  are  the 
grounds  on  which  this  hopefulness  reposes,  the  work  which 
confronts  the  present  administration  is  likely  to  be  neither 
easy  of  execution  nor  brief  in  duration.  No  less  a  task  con- 
fronts it  than  the  development  of  Hobart  into  a  thoroughly 
fit  and  well  equipped  modern  College.  Such  is  the  goal  on 
which  its  eye  is  set.  Our  gymnasium  is  yet  to  be  built  and  a 
Physical  Instructor  provided.  A  Biological  laboratory  also 
must  soon  be  added  if  we  are  to  efficiently  fulfil  our  academic 
mission.  The  lack  of  this  laboratory  and  of  a  Chair  of 
Economics  loses  us  students  all  the  time,  while  the  steady 
growth  of  the  undergraduate  body,  which  is  now  a  certainty, 
will  render  another  dormitory  imperatively  necessary  within 
a  year  or  two.  All  of  these  things  are  needed  and  all  of  them 
will  surely  come  if  the  forces  which  are  now  in  motion  are  fur- 
thered and  strengthened.  The  time  has  arrived  for  a  steady 
and  determined  advance  all  along  the  line.  What  is  to 
be  done  must  be  done  at  once  or,  at  the  least,  must  be  begun 
at  once.  Let  then  every  Hobart  Alumnus  be  up  and  doing. 
Some  men  can  send  us  students,  others  can  augment  our 
funds,  others  again  can  influence  their  friends  to  give  us  help, 
and  others  still  can  secure  for  the  President  opportunities  to 
represent  the  College  on  the  platform  or  in  the  schools  : 
opportunities,  by  the  way,  of  which  he  would  gladly  avail 
himself.  Each  man  can  do  something  :  and  if  each  man  does 
do  something,  the  waters  of  the  Seneca  will  soon  give  back 
the  reflection  of  a  statelier  Hobart  which  shall  both  rejoice 
the  hearts  of  her  faithful  sons  of  today  and  bless  the  lives  of 
their  children's  children  in  the  days  that  are  to  come. 

With  heartfelt  devotion  to  Hobart,  I  am, 

Faithfully  yours, 

Langdon  C.  Stewardson. 


REV.  HENRY  ROSWELL  LOCKWOOD, 

A.M..S.T.D. 

At  a  joint  meeting  of  the  resident  Trustees  and  the  Faculty 
of  Hobart  College  held  this  21st  day  of  September,  1905, 
the  following  minute  relative  to  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Henry 
R.  Lockwood  was  adopted  : 

"  In  the  death  of  Dr.  Lockwood,  which  occurred  at  Syra- 
cuse on  the  20th  instant,  Hobart  College  has  sustained  a  loss 
most  appreciated,  it  may  be,  by  those  of  us  who  knew  him 
first  as  an  undergraduate  in  Hobart,  then  as  a  tutor,  for 
thirty  years  one  of  its  Trustees  and  for  the  last  two  years 
Chairman  of  the  Board.  In  all  these  relations  perhaps  the 
one  word  that  expresses  best  his  distinguishing  trait  was 
character.  He  was  a  man  among  men  in  all  the  affairs  of 
life.  He  was  cultured  ;  he  was  lovable  ;  he  was  devout. 
He  was  a  lover  of  nature  and  of  men.  As  a  student  in 
Hobart  his  scholarship  was  of  the  best,  as  evidenced  by  the 
fact  that  in  spite  of  his  being  a  leader  in  athletics,  he  grad- 
uated with  the  second  honor  in  his  class.  It  is  doubted  by 
those  who  knew  him  then  if,  in  the  last  forty  years,  there 
has  arisen  another  whose  influence  did  more  to  tone  the 
student  body  to  right  living  and  right  thinking  than  did  that 
of  Henry  R.  Lockwood  as  an  undergraduate.  In  the  city 
which  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  made  his  home 
))r.  Lockwood  was  foremost  in  every  movement  that  tended 
to  the  bettering  of  civic  life.  His  personal  friends  were 
limited  to  no  class  or  condition  in  life.  His  connection  with 
both  the  Faculty  and  Trustees  of  Hobart  makes  it  peculiarly 
fitting  that  they  should  join  at  this  time  in  recording  the 
use  of  their  loss,  and  in  expressing  the  deep  sympathy  felt 
for  his  family,  and  for  the  community  in  which  he  lived.' 

•  Resolved :  That  a  copy  of  the  foregoing  be  sent  to  the 
family  of  Dr.  Lockwood,  that  it  be  laid  before  the  Faculty 
and  the  Hoard  of  Trustees  at  their  next  meeting  for  record, 
and  thai  both  the  Faculty  and  Trustees  send  representatives 
to  the  funeral  services  in  Syracuse  to-morrow." 

The  President  of  the  College  and  Dr.  Charles  1).  Vail 
attended    the    funeral  of    Dr.     Lockwood,  and  the  President 

took  pari  in  the  services. 


ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Two  changes  are  to  be  reported  in  the  per- 
FACULTY       sonnel  of  the  Faculty.     In  the  place  of  Dr. 

Herbert  R.  Moody,  who  resigned  from  the 
Professorship  of  Chemistry  last  June  to  accept  a  position  in 
the  College  of  the  City  of  New  York,  Mr.  John  E.  Lansing 
of  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  has  been  appointed  head  of 
the  Department  with  the  official  title  of  Assistant  Professor. 
Professor  Lansing  is  an  A.  B.  and  A.M.,  of  Harvard  Univer- 
sity. 

Mr.  Cecil  T.  Derry,  instructor  in  Latin  and  Greek,  having 
resigned  in  September  to  go  to  the  Cambridge  Latin  School, 
Mr.  Alfred  R.  Wightman,  A.  B.,  A.  M.  (Brown),  A.  M. 
(Harvard),  has  been  tendered  the  vacant  position  and  has 
accepted.       Mr.  Wightman  has  already    entered    upon    his 

duties. 

By  the  will  of  Miss  Annie  E.  Beck  with,  late 

GIFTS  AND    of  New  London,  Conn.,  the   sum  of  $5000 

BEQUESTS      was    bequeathed  to  Hobart  College,    ''the 

income  thereof  to  be  used,  according  to  the 
laws  and  rules  of  said  college  in  founding  scholarships  at  said 
college  to  be  called  the  Benjamin  F.  Beckwith  scholarships.' 

The  oil  portrait  of  the  Mr.  Benjamin  F.  Beckwith,  who  was 
the  father  of  the  testatrix,  was  also  given  to  the  College.  The 
portrait  has  already  been  received  and  hung  in  Coxe  Hall. 

The  oil  portrait  of  the  Rev.  Jasper  Adams,  the  first  Presi- 
dent of  Hobart,  has  also  been  bequeathed  to  the  college  by 
his  daughter,  the  late  Miss  C.  C.  Adams.  The  existence  of 
this  portrait  was  discovered  a  short  time  ago  by  Prof.  Charles 
D.  Vail  and  he  secured  from  Miss  Adams  the  promise  that 
at  her  death  it  should  become  the  property  of  Hobart.  The 
portrait  now  adorns  Coxe  Llall  and  has  been  placed  above 
the  platform  and  to  the  right  of  the  portrait  of  Bishop  Hobart. 


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By  the  will  of  Mrs.  Mary  H.  Hunt,  widow  of  Washington 
Hunt,  sometime  Trustee  of  Hobart,  a  legacy  of  $1000.00  has 
been  left  to  the  College.  This  sum  will  be  added  to  the  per- 
manent endowment  fund. 

Upon  their  return  from  the  long  vacation  the  eyes  of  all 
Hobart  men  were  gladdened  by  the  sight  of  a  new  and  hand- 
some concrete  walk  running  along  the  front  of  Medbery  Hall 
and  extending  past  the  Library  and  as  far  as  Geneva.  This 
walk,  which  adds  so  much  to  the  looks  of  grounds  and  build- 
ings, is  but  another  kindness  for  which  the  College  is  indebted 
to  Miss  Catherine  M.  Tuttie,  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  the  generous 
giver  of  Medbery  Hall.  Mr.  Van  Auken  superintended  the 
construction  of  the  walk,  and  its  excellence  gives  evidence 
of  his  careful  oversight. 

Another  new  adornment  of  the  Campus  is  the  gift  of  a 
handsome  flag  pole  and  of  two  flags  from  Mrs.  Charles  I). 
Vail.  There  is  a  small  flag  for  stormy  weather  and  a  large 
one  for  fair  weather.  The  gifts  were  bestowed  on  condition 
that  one  flag  or  the  other  should  be  flying  every  day  as  long 
as  college  was  in  session. 


